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Unire STATES PATENT FFICFJo JOHN JOHNSON, GF NAPLES, lLL'lNOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

To @ZZ whom it riz/ay ooncern:

lle it known that l, .oHN JOHNSON, of Naples, in the county oi' Scottand Stato of Illinois, have invented a new and useful lm proved(lern-Planter; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, land exact deseripti on thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this speeiiieation, in whichfand the seedtuhe.

Similar letters of reference in' the three views indicate correspon dingparts. y

This invention consists in dividing the frame of the machine, arrangingthe seed device on one frame and the grooved pressing-Wheels on theother, and eonneeting,` the two frames to- ;gcth erhya sliding eonpling,in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully.

understand my invention, l. Awill proeeedto describe its leonstruvfionand operation. i

lu the drawings, A represents the front frame oi' the machine, vl'orcarrying the seedhoppers and slide, draft-pole, and openers; and Brepresents the hind i'rainc, with a lon,-

f gitudinal middle and adlustahle con pling-rod,

and its two covering and pressing-wheels (l (l. The earth is opened forreceiving the seed by a curved-"edge cutter, one on each side oi' theuaehina) consisting of a solid curved portion, a, hollow perpendicularportion, b, `forming the seed-tube, anda horizontal. bar, c. To theseshoes are suitably attached transverse beams D D', which serve toeonneet the shoes togethern The front lucani, D, connecting the ends ofthe. two shoes, supports in the middle of its length the drnllipole lf;hy two curved standards, e e, 'which ha re perlmations through`them',through which is passed a holt i'or 1neoping` the polein place.and l, this arrangement, the rear end of il al 'li rf pointed io theframe or the shoes may be raise wressed for regulating` the depth of thewhich operation will raise or depress the heel of the shoes inconsequence oi the curved shape of their cutters. i

F l1 are seed-hoppers, which are connected to saddles d d, secured tothe har D and horidicular hollow shoo-stzuidards b b. Under the ping,`devices, which are operated by a hand lever, G, and pitnian El. '"hey,consist of six pieces-viz., two slotted portions, ff, and fouradjustable bars, f/ g g g. They are made adjustable longitudinally forthe purpose of regulating the size of the orifices through which theseed falls into the tubes b bK These por tions, when, put together andarranged in suitable guides, as represented by the drawings, forni theseed-slide for depositing seed from the hopper into the tubes b balternately.

Within the seed-tubes b b, and near the bottoms of the sa1ne,arearranged valves }1,`wl1ich are rihrated alternately from one side of thetube to the other hy rods li, which are connected with the seed-slide.These valves 7L 7l retain each charge of seed from the hopper unt-il theproper time for dropping it into the ground. The object of thisarrangement ot' valves placed .in ille hott-om of the seed-tubes is toallow the seed to fall to the ground instantly the valve/sere opened.rlille seed ma)r thus be dropped atregular intervals apart and at theproper tiine.' The heel of each shoe'is ooneave, and has two cnrx'ed\vings,3 j, spread out in suoh a -manner that these wingsV will open theearth for the seed, and when it is dropped in the furrow the earth willfall back over the seed, covering them completely, at a depth to heregulated by the vertical adjust44 ment of the draftpole, as beforedescribed.

k is a hooked plate bolted under the boum ll, to one end of which thedraft pole is attached, and .to its other end the rear frame isatt-ached hy an adjustable. bar, J, n'hieh is strapped lo the under sideof this frame B and held in place by a pin, l, as shownintho drawings. Apin, '111, projeeis up 'from its rear, and that provenls this har frombeing drawn enti rely ont when the piu l is withdrawn. This novelarrangement ior connecting the two frames together is for the purpose ofallowing the machine to he readily turnedl around, and at the saine timebringing the wheels C C up :is nearto the heels ofthe seed-tubes aspossi fontal portions of the shoes over the herpeir y,

mouths of these hoppers play the seed-drop;

b1e.,j By this arrangement the object may be Having thus described myiiivention, what effected ih a, Vey simple manner, for,l tuning I claim,and desire to'seeure by Letters Patent,

pin l, when the forward frame mayl be drawn T11eeombinatio11,with etdivided frame, AB,

some distance from theieer frame. andjwhiie of the adjustableorex'tension bar'J, jointed toA in this state the machine-@aube tunedshort the front part of the machine, and arranged in a around.. TheWheels@ C are fonpessingfthe the manner and 'for the ypurposes hereinset earth down upon the seed ,and 'forerushing r-i.`01th.r` v

einde', Vte, The diiveis seat L is` placed oh' n JOHN JOHNSON. the .rearfi'e1ue7aas shown. by 'the drawings Witnessesz' M z M are 'xed Scrapersfor eleeiing the JOSEPH CARTER, grow-ed surfaces of `the Wheels C A.. J.BAKER,-

